Austin Merrill

An editor at Vanity Fair, Austin Merrill was formerly an Associated Press correspondent based in West Africa. He has
reported from numerous African countries—including Ivory Coast, Mali,
Liberia, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Angola—as
well as America and Europe. He is a co-founder of Everyday Africa, a
photography project that uses cell phone images to rise above
stereotypes of the continent.